[Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy

Sat Sep 8 02:13:22 CEST 2012

Hi all,
+
+I'm writing about the current rpm group policy:
+http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy
+
+In this list, there are some groups that contain only a handful of
+packages while some others are in the hundreds. It sometimes makes it
+very hard to use rpmdrake (or other tools) to browse the packages. It is
+not a bug per se, but rather an interface issue, particularly with
+inexperienced users.
+
+My interest lies in particular in the Development/Other group. It is
+currently a mess, mixing up programming tools with libraries and
+compilers for the non-major programming languages. Among them, there are
+now 300 packages for OCaml-related packages. I propose we create a
+Development/OCaml group for them.
+I also noticed that despite our policy not having a Development/Tools
+rpm group, some packages started using it (I guess because Fedora and
+Suse have a Development/Tools group). I think this is a good idea and we
+could move there various tools currently in Development/Other like cvs,
+subversion (and all vcs), valgrind, make, autoconf, etc.
+
+If you agree, I will amend our
+http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy
+with these two changes
+and get in touch with the appropriate packagers/maintainers to do the
+group change (which is a trivial spec change).
+
+Thanks,
+-- 
+Malo
+